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Definition of Dignified
1. Adjective. Having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance. "The director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"
Similar to: Courtly, Formal, Stately, Distinguished, Grand, Imposing, Magisterial
Antonyms: Undignified
2. Adjective. Having or showing self-esteem.
Definition of Dignified
1. a. Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
Definition of Dignified
1. Adjective. respectable ¹
2. Verb. (past of dignify) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dignified
1. dignify [v] - See also: dignify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dignified
Literary usage of Dignified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"Any man, it will be thought, occupying so dignified a place in public life—a lord
of Parliament, holder of a prize in the episcopal lottery (for Bangor was ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(86) The triumph of Dioclesian and Maximian was less magnificent, perhaps, than
those of Aurelian and Probus, but it was dignified by several circumstances ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... which certainly cannot be dignified by the name of a remedy. On the same page
will be found the Rosa Gallica (red rose or la rose de ..."
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